From df47eb73f3d3829834137258acbd448a6a9d2440 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryunosuke SATO Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:59:37 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] Fix requirements and dependencies in README, close gh-1131. --- README.md | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6eba3ba52..97b6c220f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,25 +14,23 @@ In the spirit of open source software development, jQuery always encourages comm What you need to build your own jQuery -------------------------------------- -In order to build jQuery, you need to have GNU make 3.8 or later, Node.js/npm latest, and git 1.7 or later. +In order to build jQuery, you need to have Node.js/npm latest and git 1.7 or later. (Earlier versions might work OK, but are not tested.) Windows users have two options: -1. Install [msysgit](https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/) (Full installer for official Git), - [GNU make for Windows](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm), and a - [binary version of Node.js](http://node-js.prcn.co.cc/). Make sure all three packages are installed to the same +1. Install [msysgit](https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/) (Full installer for official Git) and a + [binary version of Node.js](http://nodejs.org). Make sure all two packages are installed to the same location (by default, this is C:\Program Files\Git). -2. Install [Cygwin](http://cygwin.com/) (make sure you install the git, make, and which packages), then either follow - the [Node.js build instructions](https://github.com/ry/node/wiki/Building-node.js-on-Cygwin-%28Windows%29) or install - the [binary version of Node.js](http://node-js.prcn.co.cc/). +2. Install [Cygwin](http://cygwin.com/) (make sure you install the git and which packages), and + a [binary version of Node.js](http://nodejs.org/). Mac OS users should install Xcode (comes on your Mac OS install DVD, or downloadable from [Apple's Xcode site](http://developer.apple.com/technologies/xcode.html)) and [Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/). Once Homebrew is installed, run `brew install git` to install git, and `brew install node` to install Node.js. -Linux/BSD users should use their appropriate package managers to install make, git, and node, or build from source +Linux/BSD users should use their appropriate package managers to install git and Node.js, or build from source if you swing that way. Easy-peasy. -- 2.39.5